There’s not much Liverpool FC haven’t achieved in a club history that stretches back to 1892.

But today, in a corner of London, the club’s players may have set a new notable first.

When James Milner got sent off for two yellow cards around about the hour mark, the Reds were already behind to Joe Ledley’s shot from the edge of the box.

A comeback seemed unlikely.

And in fact, if you knew your history and your stats, you’d probably have written off any chance of a Liverpool win.

For in 124 years of history, Liverpool may never before have come back from behind to win a game with 10 men, according to existing records.

That’s the view of a man who should know, Liverpool FC statistician Ged Rea.

Ged Rea

Ged told the ECHO: “I wasn’t even thinking about it to be honest and then John Bradley from LFCTV contacted me. At first I was able to see it had never happened before in the Premier League era but now I’ve looked back through all existing records and can’t see it has ever happened before.

“There was a game in 1962 against Preston when Ian St John got sent off but he had also scored early on so that doesn’t look likely that we were behind.

“Some people on Twitter suggested a game against Fulham in 2004 when Josemi got sent off and we won 4-2 but it was 2-2 when he got sent off.